Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-11-03

Robert: Gimme some pie. Mamma (re-
provingly): Gimme some pie! What else do
you say? Robert: And hurry up about it.
Prof Newton. of Yale, says that the fresh
man class this year will number over 200 and
be the largest on record The scientific school
will have 100 students in the new class.
The election OF the wife of Senator Blair to
be trustee of the New Hampshire normal
school, is said to be the first instance of a
woman being chosen to state institution
there.
Professor Lucy NJ. Salmon. the new occu,
pant of the chair of history at Vassar college,
began her career as an educator in Iowa,
having been for six years the principal of the
MCGTcgOr high school.
Prof. Dana. of Yale college, reached San
Francisco last week from Hawaii. where he
spent one week studying the crater of Kill
auea. He mad examined the volcano forty
seven years ago and found on his recent visit
that it had not aged as much as he had in the
intervening years.
a little three-year-old girl, when her mother
was trying to get her to sleep one summer
evening, began to ask questions about noise
outside. When told that 1t was caused by a
cricket she wisely remarked. Mamma, !
think it ought to be oiled"
A little four-vear-old Louisville girl had her
first dream, and was eXpiating upon the new
found experience and telling it out, when her
mother said: "Jennie, tell mamma your
dreamF 80! pshaw, mamma; YOU were lying
right by me, and you ought to know"
Parent-"Who is the LATEST boy in your
class, Johnny?' Johnny-'T dunno" 81
should think you would know. When all the
Others are industriOusly writing or studying
their lessons who is he who sits idly in his
seat and watches the rest. instead of working
hmself?' THE teacher"
In the town Of Marlboro, Conn, there is a
girl eight years of age, that has long list OF
living anCpstOrs-a father and mother, TIVE
grandmOthers, two grandfathers, three great
grandmOtherS, two -grandtatherS, and
one Observation-Disclosures, the latter being
nearly 100 years old.
Rufus Magee, our Minister to Norway and
Sweden, has given the Indiana State Univer-
sity, in which he was once a student, n copy
OF map made in 1892 and 1856 showing the
geOgTapher's idea Of the world at that period
The original was found in an old Russia
library by Baron NOrdenskiOld the Arctic pX-
porer and the only other copy in this country
is owned by Harvard University.
''Ma," demonstrated Bobby ''when was at
gTandma's she let me have two pieces OF pie"
"Wcll. she ought not to have done so. Robby,"
said his mother. II think two pieces of pie
are too much for little boys. The older YOU
grow, Bobby the more wisdom You will gain.
BOUUl was silent, DuJ only lOf u moment.
''Well. ma" he said. grandma is good deal
older than you are"
The Indian children of Alaska no longer
wear a tag of tin with the number, in order
that If truant from school they might be
identified. School commences in September,
and continues forty-four weeks In addition
to primary English branches, the boys are
taught hlaCksmithing, cOOperage, carpentry
and cabinet making and the girls are in
struCted in sewing, knitting, cooking and
different household duties.
It's stated on good authority that there are
now in New England l9l 900 people who can
neither read nor write; 332, 900 in Pennsylvania
and PAL, 900 in New York, while the total of
the whole country reaches nearly 5000, 600. or
ten per cent Of the population. 1t is reason
able to believe that, outside of the great cities
which have public libraries, sixty per cent of
the population never read anything but the
personal items and locals in the newspaper.
One of the boys at the Byran. Texas, agri-
cultural and mechanical college has been ray.
ing his own way by working on farm A
few weeks ago lie found that he must abandon
his studies for time or run in debt. Some
Of the other boys learned of the situation, put
their heads tOgethe" raised 800 and loaned
II to him for six years without interest. They
also voted that the money, when paid. should
be left with the treasurer of the college as q
permanent loanng fund for use in similar
cases.